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H. JACKSONQOFNEIWYORK, N.` Y.,

Laan-.Patent No, 74,368, dated February 1'1, 1568.

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Be itknown that I, H. JACKSON, of the'city, county,"and State of NewYork, have invented a new and diverting Game; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and 'exactdescription thereof,

which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same,reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to a new and divertinggame, which I term the Gameof the Government; and itV i consists of a box divided into a suitablenumber of compartments representing the Treasury and di'erent Departfments of the Government, and in using, 'in connection with said box, aseries of counters and cards which are played as hereinafter i-'ullydescribed. In the accompanying sheet of drawings-f Figure 1 is a plan ortop view of the box or counterfreceptacle. Figures 2 and 3, views of thecards-which are used in connection with the box or counter-receptacle.Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. l

A represents a box, which may be of any desired form, but a circularshape would probablybe preferable.

This box is divided into a series of compartments, a central one, a,which I term-the Treasury, or the receptacle for Government taxesand aseries of radial compartments, b, eleven in' all, which representrespectively the President, LegaLAdvice, Attorney GenerahvAssociateJudges, Supreme Court, Chi-et` Justice, House of Bepi-e4 scntatives,Congress, Senate, Secretaries, and Cabinet Meeting, all of. which areshown clearly inuiig. 1. v

A pack ot' cardsis used, consisting of two kirids, one of which, (seefig. 2,) I term prize cards, nine in number, and which may beembellished in any proper manner. These cards are numbered from 1toi9,andfrom Al to 9 have the names of the compartments b printed upon them,Nos, 1 and 2 having Stick to the Flag and Constitution printedrespectively upon them, (see iig. 2.) The other cards of the pack, (seeiig. 3,) are simply numbered from 10 upwards, say to 50, nodeiinitenumber being required.

The game is played as follows: No definite number of players isrequired; from four to six would `prob-ably form the most agreeablenumber. The cards, both kinds, arewell shuilled together, and eachplayer draws a card, the one drawing the lowest number having the deal.Counters 1?sn1all4 disks of bone or other material, are dealt around toeach player in equal numbers, and each player deposits a counter, B,into the centre compartaient a, Government taxes, while the player atthe left of the dealerin addition to his tax-counter, deposits 'acounter into each of the eleven compartments b, Vpaying his respects tothe several heads of" theDepartments of the Government. The cards areagain shuiiled bytheI dealer, and from six to ten cards thrown o fromthe top of the pack, andthe cards thus thrownout I term stops, the useor objectof which will be presently seen. The other cards are thendealtback uppermost-around to the players, each player having an equal ii number. To insure this, care must ybetaken todiscard the requisitenumber of stops that 'will admit of an equal distribution of the cards.The player at the left oi' the dealer, the one who deposited thecounters in b,

and who hasthe succeeding deal, plays first, and if he. holds any singleone of the embellished cards,i`rom 2 to 9 inclusive, they .areiirstplayed, for they.admit of the countersbeingtaken from thecompartments corresponding to their names; for instance, if he hold No.3,' Attorney General," hecan .take thecounters from that compartment inthe box, and so` on'. If h should hold No. 2, Constitution, he is`entitled to the counters in thev Treasury-Government taxes. No. 1however, Stickto the Flag,draws lno prise, but simply exoneratcs theholder from paying forfeit, as hereinafter explained. Besides thisdrawing of counters by the possession of. single cards, combinations maybe effected to draw more; forinstance,` ifthe player should hold No. 4,Prcsident," and No. 8, Attorney General, he islentitled to the countersin Legal Advice, in addi tion to those contained in the compartmentscorresponding to the names of cards Nos. 3 and 4, for the President goesto the Attorney for legal advice, land cards No. 4, President, and No.5, Secretaries,played together, is a Cabinet meeting, and entitles theplayer to the counters in/those three compartments. Cards No'. 6,Senate, and No. 7, House of Representatives, played together, isameeting of Congress, andgentitles the player to the countersv in thosecompartments. Cards No. 8, Chief Justice, a'nd No. 9, Associate Judges,played together, is a term of the Supreme Court, and entitles the playerto the counters in those three compartments. These cards, it will beunderstoed, must be playedrin order to take the prizes; it will not doto hold them. In

the event of a player holding lnone of thev cards abovespecified, hemust play the plain numbered ones, andis.

'entitled to play simultaneously all the consecutive numbers he holds.The next player is the one whoA has the consecutive number of the cardlast played, and if the succeeding number is not held by a-ny`of theplayers, it is among the stops, and the last playcr, the one who playedthe last card, takes the lead. This is' the object of the ,stopsf theycontinually change the lead among the players in each game,ancltherebyserve to equalize the chances of winning the game, which consists ingetting rid of all the cards, the first player who plays his last cardbeing the winner, and all the others giving the winner a counter foreach card lheld by them, except the holder of No. 1, Stick to the Flag.l

Anydesired number of games may be tlius played, and the diversion-irsconcluded as follows: The cards are shutlled and dealt around,face up toeach player, vthe players taking the counters from the compartments'in'A the box according to the embellished..cardsl received by them..Should one player receive the Attorney General," and another thePresident thecounter's in Legal Advice must be equally di'videdbetweenthe` two, and the same rule applies to the other` combinations. lTheboard being cleared of counters, the player having the greatest-numberis supposed `to vbe President,- an'd the five nextin order to constitutehis Cabinet.

Having thus described my invention, what` I claim as new, and desiretosecure by Letters Patent, is- Algame, consisting ot'- a box divided intocompartmentsrepresenting the different Departments of the Government,vinconnection with counters B, and a pack of cards composed of twolkinds, one kind being simply numbered, and the other numbered and-named,as designated, in accordance with the compartments in the box, allarranged or devised substantially as herein shown and described. l i

The abovespecitlca-tion of my invention signed by me,this'31st day ofDecember, 1867.

Witnesses:

WM. F. McNAMARA, y ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

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